{"type": "article", "title": "The Readout Shortcut: Positional Number Copying Dominates Arithmetic CoT Readout in Small Language Models", "publisher": "Web Pulse", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-readout-shortcut-positional-number-copying-dominates-arithmetic-cot-readout", "original_source": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.22870", "published": "2026-05-25T04:00:00+00:00", "accessed": "2026-07-10", "id": "the-readout-shortcut-positional-number-copying-dominates-arithmetic-cot-readout"}